Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books: With Introductions, Notes and IllustrationsP.F. Collier & Son, 1910 - 462 頁 Each of the prefaces and prologues in this volume is a complete work of literature unto itself, offering a unique insight to the thoughts of its author. |
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... reader as man to man , dis- closing his hopes and fears , seeking sympathy for his difficulties , offering defence or defiance , according to his temper , against the criticisms which he anticipates . It thus happens that a per ...
... reader as man to man , dis- closing his hopes and fears , seeking sympathy for his difficulties , offering defence or defiance , according to his temper , against the criticisms which he anticipates . It thus happens that a per ...
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... reader and informer . For this book is not for every rude and uncunning man to see , but to clerks and very gentlemen that understand gentleness and science . Then I pray all them that shall read in this little treatise to hold me for ...
... reader and informer . For this book is not for every rude and uncunning man to see , but to clerks and very gentlemen that understand gentleness and science . Then I pray all them that shall read in this little treatise to hold me for ...
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... Reader , that the same clud of ignorance , that long hath darkened many realmes under this accurssed kingdome of that Romane Antichrist , hath also owercovered this poore Realme ; that idolatrie hath bein manteined , the bloode of ...
... Reader , that the same clud of ignorance , that long hath darkened many realmes under this accurssed kingdome of that Romane Antichrist , hath also owercovered this poore Realme ; that idolatrie hath bein manteined , the bloode of ...
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... READER , FOR THE BETTER UNDERSTANDING IS HEREUNTO ANNEXED To the Right Noble , and Valorous , Sir Walter Raleigh , Knight , Lord Wardein of the Stanneryes , and Her Majesties Liefetenaunt of the County of Cornewayll S IR , knowing how ...
... READER , FOR THE BETTER UNDERSTANDING IS HEREUNTO ANNEXED To the Right Noble , and Valorous , Sir Walter Raleigh , Knight , Lord Wardein of the Stanneryes , and Her Majesties Liefetenaunt of the County of Cornewayll S IR , knowing how ...
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... Reader with the repetition . True it is that among many other benefits for which it hath been honored , in this one it triumpheth over all human knowledge , that it hath given us life in our understanding , since the world itself had ...
... Reader with the repetition . True it is that among many other benefits for which it hath been honored , in this one it triumpheth over all human knowledge , that it hath given us life in our understanding , since the world itself had ...
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第 258 頁 - I cannot say he is everywhere alike; were he so, I should do him injury to compare him with the greatest of mankind. He is many times flat, insipid; his comic wit degenerating into clenches, his serious swelling into bombast. But he is always great when some great occasion is presented to him; no man can say he ever had a fit subject for his wit, and did not then raise himself as high above the rest of poets *Quantum lenta solent inter viburna cupressi.
第 258 頁 - All the images of nature were still present to him, and he drew them, not laboriously, but luckily; when he describes anything, you more than see it, you feel it too. Those who accuse him to have wanted learning give him the greater commendation: he was naturally learned; he needed not the spectacles of books to read nature; he looked inwards and found her there.
第 213 頁 - When, upon some slight encouragement, I first visited your lordship, I was overpowered, like the rest of mankind, by the enchantment...
第 224 頁 - ... he carries his persons indifferently through right and wrong, and at the close dismisses them without further care, and leaves their examples to operate by chance. This fault the barbarity of his age cannot extenuate; for it is always a writer's duty to make the world better, and justice is a virtue independent on time or place.
第 217 頁 - It was observed of the ancient schools of declamation, that the more diligently they were frequented, the more was the student disqualified for the world, because he found nothing there which he should ever meet in any other place. The same remark may be applied to every stage but that of Shakespeare.
第 174 頁 - But enough of this : there is such a variety of game springing up before me, that I am distracted in my choice, and know not which to follow. Tis sufficient to say, according to the proverb, that here is God's plenty.
第 286 頁 - It may be safely affirmed that there neither is, nor can be, any essential difference between the language of prose and metrical composition.
第 318 頁 - She is the fairies' midwife, and she comes In shape no bigger than an agate-stone On the forefinger of an alderman, Drawn with a team of little atomies Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep : Her waggon-spokes made of long spinners...
第 279 頁 - It was published, as an experiment, which, I hoped, might be of some use to ascertain, how far, by fitting to metrical arrangement a selection of the real language of men in a state of vivid sensation, that sort of pleasure and that quantity of pleasure may be imparted, which a Poet may rationally endeavour to impart.
第 216 頁 - Nothing can please many, and please long, but just representations of general nature. Particular manners can be known to few, and therefore few only can judge how nearly they are copied. The irregular combinations of fanciful invention may delight awhile, by that novelty of which the common satiety of life sends us all in quest ; but the pleasures of sudden wonder are soon exhausted, and the mind can only repose on the stability of truth.